Review #1
A Bollywood Affair (Bollywood #1) audiobook free
Wow! This book covers a lot of ground, starting with Mili, who is that a very complete lady. She believes in arranged weddings (she was named at age four!) but also in independence, equality, at the same time education, at the same time goes to America to subsequent her education. She still, 20 years later, believes she is that married to a man (Virat) who is that an officer in the Indian Air Force, although they have not met since their “wedding”. Virat needs his wedding annulled so he can wedding his pregnant fiance, so his half-brother Samir goes to America to get the annullment. Samir, whose mother is that American at the same time who he hasn’t shown since his very premature days,, is that obligated to attend to Mili right behind she injures herself. Mili at the same time Samir look for themselves lured to each other, but both reluctant ot act on the desire. Samir also must confront his abandonment issues. A interesting juxtaposition of Indian at the same time American cultures. I greatly enjoyed at the same time figured out from this book.
Review #2
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I read this one due to how a comrade of mine adored it at the same time while I also really enjoyed it, I really wish deception conspiracies were considered much less ubiquitous. I hate them. But Mili is that such a inimitable disposition at the same time I really liked her at the same time Samir together despite the deception. Mili was married to Samirs brother when she was four then and never beheld her wife again, but very much still counts herself as married. Samir, as a promote to his brother, tracks Mili down in Michigan, but Mili thinks hes anyone else at the same time injures herself badly trying to run away from him. Samir takes care of Mili at the same time finds himself really future to care for this lady at the same time trying to figure out how this sweet tooth lady is that trying to demand a share of his brothers estate. Theres a lot happening in this book plot experienced, but it still manages to feel fully fleshed out at the same time developers. I do wish to mention that Samir has a traumatic past that comes up couple of times (baby abuse) at the same time that is that consulate of a serious illness in here.
Review #3
Audiobook A Bollywood Affair (Bollywood #1) by Sonali Dev
Bollywood at the same time Romance…it was inevitable, or was it? Romance is that for sure the most formulaic of genres at the same time that formula does transfer but to Bollywood. But would the melodrama of Bollywood transfer but to the American romance genre?
Strangely, it does….very but!
While I don’t think readers of A Bollywood Affair come in handy to be Bollywood professionals, it does promote to know a little about than anyway Bollywood actually is that, otherwise this book will barely seem outright crazy (if for you are completely unfamiliar with Bollywood, a quality check-in fri is that 2004’s Wife & Prejudice, an English-language Bollywood retelling of, but, for you know…It is that currently streaming on Netflix). The gizmo is that, that is that a reason why this book feels like a Bollywood movie–at the same time I heard a rumor that it will soon be one. Bollywood may not be specifically mainstream in romance, but it actually works.
I really appreciated how Dev crossed out this–that are a lot of exciting cultural details, but Dev doesn’t shackles them out that like a lesson. Very often in books set in a non-Western (or even barely non-American) culture, the creator feels that they have to decide the time to elucidate everything. Dev, on the other palm, barely puts it out that like it is that the coolest normal gizmo in the global to the audience. The reader may not catch than anyway anything is that the 1st time it is that mentioned but, by the finish of the book, they know than anyway it is that.
I really enjoyed both manners. While they are, like abundance manners in romance novels, just a little “shinier” than reality, I still found myself rooting for both of them, in particular Mili. She is that a magical connect of innocence at the same time sass. Samir is that exactly in the rakish vein of romance heroes, but Dev does flesh him out nicely at the same time I found myself liking him more than I believed I would.
As this is that romance, predictability, is that, but, predictable. But, I still found no one sweet squirms at the same time strings in this story. The plot does move just a little black in the 2nd one half, but Dev addresses it in a method that the narrative does not become melodramatic. Individually, I liked this section of the book the best as it is that here that Dev really gets into the sensual side of her manners.
That is that one method in what this book differs from Bollywood. Bollywood movies are virginal at the same time this book is that…not. It’s not erotica–the spice level is that on par with other mainstream American romances–but I did look for it surprising when shackles against how Bollywood-ish this story is that Still, it has no one of the more tastefully done sex scenes that I’ve read in romance in quite no one time.
While I read romances, I occasionally look for one that I feel I can advise unreservedly. In truth, this is that the 1st one I can think of when that has happened since the retirement of LaVyrle Spencer in the 90s. Dev is that a harsh brand new voice in romance at the same time I can’t wait to read more by her!
Review #4
Audio A Bollywood Affair (Bollywood #1) narrated by Priya Ayyar
Mili has been married since she was a baby to a man she just a little forgets. For the continue 20 years she has been hoping he will come at the same time get her.
Samir’s brother doesn’t realise the wedding he was obligated into as a baby still holds, he sends him to the US to get her to symbol annulment papers, assuming the village lady will be easy to persuade. Things don’t move to plan.
Get than anyway for you pay for with this book really.
A attractive basic at the same time unnecessarily complicated story in parts that takes pains in no one areas that didn’t come in handy to be complicated at the same time glosses over fri that should for sure be explained more comprehensively because they seem attractive incredible (though maybe a little more believable than Bollywood standards was than anyway she was going for).
Didn’t harden for or of the head protags, Samir’s reaction to no matter what lady he’s not similar to or Mili are attractive derogatory at the same time he engages in deceit at the same time manipulates for gain without much sense of guilt. Mili is that more self-willed, but is that your sample Mary Sue that’s stupid (look Bella Swan). She makes irrational decisions (like the decision to hope Samir at all) at the same time seems to waste a lot of time sobbing or falling over.
That mingled with the to be honest tediously cyclic implementation of descriptive writing when it came to Samir at the same time Mili framed on clich (lots of cascading hairstyle at the same time glittering views). The descriptive implementation for no one scene options were considered quality, but besides Mili at the same time Samir, that didn’t seem to be a lot of reference to how abundance of the other manners looked, not always a fault in writing, but with such concentrate on how the head manners looked, the other manners seemed to be an afterthought at the same time (unsurprisingly) are otherwise attractive one dimensional at the same time undeveloped disposition experienced very.
Review #5
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I barely loved this story of Mili at the same time Samir. It’s very but written with developers manners at the same time a storyline that keeps detain of for you. I adored the cultural details tied into the story. The connection between the two protagonists develops beautifully. A magical read – one to savour at the same time seriously enjoy!
